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Originally Posted by Helborn
I disagree. I think the rule is clear in specifying that it is "treated" as an injury, but is fatigue loss. No -2 DX. No falling down. Especially since a wizard cannot, except in a few specified spells, do more than knock himself unconscious. (Then he falls down)
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I agree with you on this. I think this is just an over-literal misreading of that passage to extend to the injury effects.
The effects of injury section always seemed to us to be about
injury, not spellcasting.
The part about spellcasting fatigue being "just as though the wizard
had taken damage" (emphasis mine because it is pluperfect tense - as if it had happened in the past) we always read as just an attempt to explain that goes as far toward killing you or knocking you out as injury, but not that it also knocks you down or causes shock. No one in all the printed discussion about old TFT ever mentioned an issue with anyone casting a spell for 5 ST being at -2 DX, nor of wizards collapsing when casting 8 ST or more.